Apr. 22, 2014

Biophysicist Dr Manu Prakash is designing laboratory tools that are significantly cheaper and in some cases more powerful than existing equipment, in hopes of distributing them around globe and reducing inequalities in scientific output; Prakash's Foldscope, a 3D-printed microscope assembled from paper, has received widespread attention. MORE

May. 14, 2013

Dr Isaac Bogoch study published in American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene reports creation of microscope capable of diagnosing round worms in children by sticking $8 lens to iPhone with piece of double-sided tape; microscope detects worms with 70 percent accuracy of conventional microscope. MORE